# 🔥 Google News Search Scraper (`powerai/google-news-search-scraper`) Actor

Search Google News and export structured metadata with optional article enrichment.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/powerai/google-news-search-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [PowerAI](https://apify.com/powerai) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Automation, Integrations
- **Stats:** 62 total users, 17 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 3 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $4.99 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 🔥 Google News Search Scraper

Search Google News and export structured article metadata. Optionally decode RSS links into article URLs and enrich results with images.

### ✨ Key Features

- 🔎 Query-based search with advanced operators (e.g., `intitle:`, `site:`, quotes, AND/OR)
- 🧾 Clean, normalized, ordered JSON output for downstream processing
- ⚙️ Optional enrichment to decode RSS links and fetch images from article metadata

### 🎯 Good For

- News monitoring
- Competitive research
- Market intelligence
- Content pipelines and analytics

### 📝 Input

- `searchQuery` (required): Search query for Google News
- `locale` (required): Language and region (e.g., `US:en`)
- `maxItems` (optional): Maximum number of items to collect
- `dateFrom` (optional): Start date (`YYYY-MM-DD`)
- `dateTo` (optional): End date (`YYYY-MM-DD`)
- `proxyConfig` (required): Proxy configuration

#### Input Example

```json
{
  "searchQuery": "AI",
  "locale": "US:en",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "dateFrom": "2026-01-01",
  "dateTo": "2026-01-21",
  "proxyConfig": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": []
  }
}
```

### 📤 Output

Each dataset item is a single news result.

#### Output Example

```json
{
  "headline": "OnePlus phones are reportedly no more as Oppo pulls the plug on the company",
  "articleUrl": "https://www.xda-developers.com/oneplus-phones-are-reportedly-no-more-as-oppo-pulls-the-plug-on-the-company/",
  "articleGuid": "CBMiqwFBVV95cUxPZ0JfTmhuZVZaLTUxYnRibU1PWV9CcWpZZUx1N19jb2pqUWtjQWhtMmJKM0FKeDM4ZlVqX3ZxZkFHR0dUQkxZWlRPWWN3a0dPRGhVV0huQmhQSlBkeEdZVnlrTUtCN29CeGZBX1R2M0pVV3JBZ3h6SkluTFN2OEdJaG85MkZhWlc5UUN2dDY1cFBPazlqdHF2b0VhOG1BaTZxVXFwNkk4Rm1Ta3c",
  "publisherName": "XDA",
  "publisherUrl": "https://www.xda-developers.com/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-01-20T23:03:36.000Z",
  "resolvedUrl": "https://www.xda-developers.com/oneplus-phones-are-reportedly-no-more-as-oppo-pulls-the-plug-on-the-company/",
  "rssUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiqwFBVV95cUxPZ0JfTmhuZVZaLTUxYnRibU1PWV9CcWpZZUx1N19jb2pqUWtjQWhtMmJKM0FKeDM4ZlVqX3ZxZkFHR0dUQkxZWlRPWWN3a0dPRGhVV0huQmhQSlBkeEdZVnlrTUtCN29CeGZBX1R2M0pVV3JBZ3h6SkluTFN2OEdJaG85MkZhWlc5UUN2dDY1cFBPazlqdHF2b0VhOG1BaTZxVXFwNkk4Rm1Ta3c?oc=5",
  "imageUrl": "https://static0.xdaimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wm/2025/01/oneplus-13-1.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop"
}
```

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

Search query for Google News. You can use advanced operators like intitle:, inurl:, site:, quotes, AND/OR, and exclusions with -.

## `locale` (type: `string`):

Language and region in the format COUNTRY:lang (e.g. US:en, CN:zh-Hans, HK:zh-Hant).

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of news items to collect.

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

Only include items published on or after this date.

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

Only include items published on or before this date.

## `proxyConfig` (type: `object`):

Proxy settings for the scraper.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQuery": "elon musk",
  "locale": "US:en",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfig": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": []
  }
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("powerai/google-news-search-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("powerai/google-news-search-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call powerai/google-news-search-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,powerai/google-news-search-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/EYXYuTqwQPa8SCxXM/builds/ytyD9bHmiQ4bTcVXR/openapi.json